Word: thread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bedbugs. In Manhattan, Nature Photographer Lilo Hess leashed five praying mantises with thread and safety pins to the foot of her bed to catch flies and mosquitoes...
Elena of Italy, towering wife of pint-sized Ex-King Victor Emmanuel, made a royal request of a U.S. friend: "some spools of white thread" with which to spend her time "making clothes and embroidering bibs...
Personnel had to be folded up like a telescope so that operations against the advancing enemy could proceed without an hour's halt; so that men could perform their last service from Kweilin, fly south at nightfall, to pick up the thread of continuity at rear bases immediately...
Ardent defense witnesses included the egocentric gossip columnist of the London Daily Herald, Hannen Swaffer, whose story was that he and a committee of four others had once tested Mrs. Duncan's spectral powers, tied her securely with handcuffs, sashcord and thread, watched her wriggle loose in three minutes. Concluded Swaffer: "There was ectoplasm, but no one appeared. Obviously she had been released by Albert, the spirit guide...
...Julius Schachter), she has abandoned the piano, turned thumbs down on the movies ("There's more money in radio, and anyway, I'm waiting for television"). She gets along so well with Sinatra that when his crowding fans tore her dress recently, Sinatra called for a needle & thread, knelt down and sewed it up. "Did a very neat job, too," says Joan...